I’ve always thought of converting the best nuggest of online discussion into easily digestible blog posts. This is a practice post, and I would like to know what anyone who reads this thinks of this. Is this easy to read? Of value?
And how am I supposed to go around getting people’s permission to do this, if I continue to plagiarize and publicate their words of wisdom? Have I found a form of flattery greater than imitation?
Trodden wanted to sell his studio. He’s pissed.
uhhh spending my whole weekends in the studio, behind the board and computer screen, just to have nothing but shit sandwiches come out of the speakers. My ears suck. after spending 20 hours on 5 songs, you’d think i’d at least be in the 90-percent mark, but no, just sounds goofy and ball-less. maybe i’m boosting too many highs and lows and thats just sucking out the mids which leave it powerless. how fun is it to spend your days off, doing this, just to be exhausted and half mad when the day is over and nothing gained?
There are many incompetent people in the world. Dr. David A. Dunning is haunted by the fear that he might be one of them.
Dunning, a professor of psychology at Cornell, worries about this because, according to his research, most incompetent people do not know that they are incompetent.
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One reason that the ignorant also tend to be the blissfully self-assured, the researchers believe, is that the skills required for competence often are the same skills necessary to recognize competence.
I would like to take this moment to let you know that I am absolutely appaling at pretty much everything, and getting worse every day.
Incompetent People Really Have No Clue, Studies Find / They’re blind to own failings, others’ skills
Wonkette interviews a real live lobbyist.
Do these people just stay so freaking manic that they CAN’T contemplate how they are ruining the best government ever seen on the planet?
Maybe if we all bothered to vote, to start, and then voted for smart people rather than those with the best teeth/hair/campaign commercials there wouldn’t be as much of a use for me. But, lucky for me, most of you don’t bother voting (though find me a lobbyist who skips voting and I’ll buy you a drink) and you vote for the best politician rather than the best, smartest or most ethical lawmaker. The “best government ever seen on the planet†is managed by politicians who appeal to the least common denominator, but I’m the one ruining it? Don’t bullshit a professional bullshitter.
Endogenous Retroviruses
11/12/2006
Every one of us carries about 100,000 virurses, embedded in our genes. Scary…
Every day, viruses traffic in and out of human bodies. They invade people’s cells, make new copies of themselves, and then, if they’re lucky, infect a new host. Some viruses do this by stapling themselves into our DNA, so that their own genes are read by our cells much as they read their own genes. In many cases, infected cells die as they manufacture hundreds of new viruses that burst out of them. But in some cases the viruses get stuck. They sit in the cell’s genome, and the cell goes on living. When the cell duplicates, it duplicates the virus DNA as well. Just because the virus spares the cell is not necessarily a good thing. The virus may still be able to pop out of dormancy and wreak havoc. It may also trigger its host cell to duplicate like mad–giving rise to cancer. One in five cancers is associated with these viruses.
Election Night Party – a photoset on Flickr
11/11/2006
I had a lovely election night party. Only 5 people showed up, which was a good break from the string of parties that have happened here, every other weekend.
